California legislation

What follows is information for residents of California to provide you with more information about legislation and your privacy rights granted by the California Customer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act.

Opt-out of disclosure for direct marketing purposes.

The California laws allow its residents to learn the identities of entities that received their personal data for marketing purposes and the categories of information disclosed. You may request such information by contacting us by email [email protected]

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Please be aware that this opt-out does not prohibit our disclosure of personal data for any purpose other than direct marketing. The data we process and share may include your name, address, email address, and telephone number.

Automatic gathering of information.

We collect data that you provide to us online, and through websites of unaffiliated third parties.

Automatic gathering of information by third parties.

When you visit our websites, third parties can collect personal data about your online activities over time and across different websites pertaining to your visit to or use of our and other websites.

Minors.

A business shall not sell the Personal Information of customers if the business has actual knowledge the customer is less than 16, unless the customer, in the case of customers at least 13 and less than 16, or the customer’s parent or guardian, in the case of customers who are less than 13, has affirmatively authorized the sale of the customer’s Personal Information. A business that willfully disregards the customer’s age shall be deemed to have had actual knowledge of the customer’s age. This right may be referred to as the “right to opt-in.” A business that has not received consent to sell the minor customer’s Personal Information shall be prohibited from selling the Personal Information unless the customer subsequently provides express authorization.

Do-not-track requests.

California residents visiting our websites may request that we do not automatically gather and track information pertaining to their online browsing movements across the Internet. Such requests are typically made through web browser settings that control signals or other mechanisms that provide customers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal data about an individual customer's online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. We currently do not have the ability to honor these requests. We may modify this Notice as our abilities change.

California residents’ data protection rights.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and California Privacy Rights Act provides our users who are California residents the following additional rights:

Right to Know:

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal data we collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you in the past 12 months. This includes a request to know any or all of the following:

* The categories of Personal Information collected about you;

* The categories of sources from which we collected your Personal Information;

* The categories of Personal Information that we have sold or disclosed about you for a business purpose;

* The categories of third parties to whom your Personal Information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose;

* Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information;

* The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Data Portability:

You have the right to request a copy of Personal Information we have collected and maintained about you in the past 12 months.

Right to Deletion:

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information we collected from you and maintained, subject to certain exceptions. Please note that if you request deletion of your Personal Information, we may deny your request or may retain certain elements of your Personal Information if it is necessary for us or our service providers to:

* Complete the transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between our business and you.

* Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.

* Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

* Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.

* Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.

* Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if you have provided informed consent.

* To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us.

* Comply with a legal obligation.

* Otherwise use the Personal Information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Right to Opt-Out/In:

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information. You also have the right to opt-in to the sale of Personal Information. However, we do not sell your Personal Information.

Right to Non-Discrimination:

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your CCPA privacy rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

* Deny you goods or services.

* Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.

* Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

* Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

* You can exercise these rights any time by contacting us via email at

[email protected].

Notice, the CCPA envisages some specific requirements related to the exercising of these data protection rights. Considering them we may:

* respond to your request within forty-five (45) days of receiving the request;

* provide you with Personal Information we collected about you no more than twice in a 12-months period (categories and specific pieces of collected Personal Information, business purpose and sources of collection, categories of third parties Personal Information is shared with);

* NOT provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity. You shall provide us with sufficient information allowing us to verify you as the person about whom we collected Personal Information. However, we do consider requests made through your Account sufficiently verified.

* NOT transmit your Personal Information to another entity.

Also, please be aware that we are allowed to maintain Personal Information after deletion requests are received as permitted by the CCPA (for instance, for the purposes of detection of security incidents, repair errors, compliance with legal obligations, transaction completion).

We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA. We are accessible to customers with disabilities. Users with disabilities may also contact us by emailing to request an alternative format of this Privacy Policy.